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It's time for me to remove my feet from my mouth, and plant them firmly in my ears to ask a question: What are the merits and risks to using a light composed of an array of LED's (wired together in parallel) instead of the "standard" incandescent bulbs? On first glance it looks like a logical move to make. They are now using them in my city for stop lights, and the tail lights on busses. Apparently LED's are more reliable than incandescent bulbs. They use less power, run cooler(?), and if you should happen to blow one member of the array, the rest continue to work. Besides being unproven in the real world (AFAIK), am I missing something? Sean E. (I shall now return my feet to their standard oral-position) -- "I remember when we didn't have these fancy-assed Weeeeeeeeeeeb Browers. When I was I boy, you had to use FTP to get anywhere on the internet. And half the time they didn't have anonymous ftp, so you had to hack in to the site. But that was easy then because everyone's root password was 'admin' anyways. Oy! We were real men then!" - Me Sean Ennis <ennis@es*.ca*> No spam-mail please -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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